Rice University biologist Amy Dunham has spent decades studying the mountainous rainforests of Madagascar's Ranomafana ...

Madagascar forest cannot fully recover naturally because invasive strawberry guava creates nutrient poor soil.

Becky Nichols, the park’s long-time entomologist, has dedicated her career to learning about and protecting lifeforms like ...

Perched on a leaf 1.5 meters above the ground, a female praying mantis of the species Choeradodis rhomboidea watched as entomologists passed by, flashlights in hand, in the ZF2 Biological Reserve of ...

(via Deep Look) The peppermint stick insect packs a peppermint-scented blast powerful enough to fend off hungry predators in Australia’s ancient Daintree rainforest. Check out how this clumsy ...

Two new frog species have recently been discovered on the small, boulder-studded Dauan Island off Queensland. The frogs have been named for their granite boulder habitat: Choerophyrne koeypad (“rocky ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh glimpse into life on Earth at a time when flowering plants were ...

The researchers uncovered hundreds of fragments of amber, some containing ancient insects, pollen and tree leaves, at a sandstone quarry in Ecuador that’s on the edge of what is today the Amazon basin ...